Maintaining a healthy diet is a desirable & achievable aim. Yet many people with dietary issues or chronic conditions often are confused by the plethora of advice available & unsure of what path to take to help improve their health. This series aims to motivate & inform through sound up-to-date nutritional advice presented in a clear accessible way. In addition each book features more than 100 appealing easy recipes which demonstrate that a health condition need not condemn the sufferer to a dull & limited menu. & they show that their dietary needs can easily be accommodated when cooking for the family. Key points: each title

Includes:: comprehensive nutritional guidelines from experts in the field; more than 100 recipes bring variety & healthful options within easy reach; & checklists & tables provide at-a-glance information.

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In Healthy Lunchboxes for Kids" Amanda Grant shows you how to make fuss-free lunchboxes in next to no time. For busy parents its hard to know what to pack in your kids lunchbox. Despite our best intentions we often send our kids to school with lunch that may not necessarily provide them with the nutrients they need to keep them alert & active through the afternoon. Amanda shows you just how simple it can be to give your child an exciting but healthy lunch. There are simple ideas for sandwich fillings salads filling soups & healthy sweet & savoury snacks as well as nutritional tips. It is the ideal guide for busy parents with over 75 recipe ideas." ...

Its a common misconception that healthy wholesome meals are a time-consuming chore to prepare. This stunning compendium shows ...

Nothing could be easier to serve than a whole meal in one dish. & with this br&-new book youll discover that one-dish cookery can be healthy too. Every recipe in this book can be cooked in just one pan pot or tin to make your life really easy. The delicious recipes range from casseroles curries roasts & oven-baked dishes to grills stir-fries & salads. The recipes have all been carefully designed to provide maximum nutrition while limiting your saturated fat cholesterol & salt. Whats more many come packed with vegetables so you can almost fulfil your five-a-day"a in just one meal. Whether youre cooking a Mediterranean Roasted Lamb or a wonderfully tasty & healthy lasagne youll be sure to enjoy these superb fuss-free meals. ...

The words of a favourite hymn can be a lifeline in difficult times providing an outlet for feelings that may threaten to overwhelm us. Hymns also help us celebrate life
- to see joy in the ordinary stuff of the everyday as well as in those moments when we feel particularly touched by God's love. Pam Rhodes' reflections in this absorbing volume
- on subjects such as weariness & comfort faith & forgiveness prayer & guidance community & creation
- are given added resonance by the inclusion of background information on the writers of the 160 or so hymns featured. Containing original line drawings & decoration this is a beautifully packaged book that can be enjoyed for many years.


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Praise for this book: This book succeeds in its aim of providing a practically useful & theoretically sound comprehensive ook on hearing aids.. . It makes the most complicated concepts easy to understand with excellent cross referencing.. .I certainly wouldnt want to be without this book & I highly recommend it to everyone with an interest in hearing aids. -- Pauline Smith ENT & Audiology News Praise for the first edition: One of the best textbooks I have ever used...written by a researcher with a stellar reputation [who is also] an expert on the clinical aspects of the field...packed with information from both a theoretical & practical perspective...makes difficult concepts comprehensible...from an instructors point of view it is a sheer delight. --Adrienne Rubenstein Ph D Professor Department of Speech Communication Arts & Sciences Brooklyn College New York Key

Features: * Completely revised to reflect the research & technological advances of the last decade* New chapters on directional microphones & the latest digital signal processing strategies* Extensive coverage of all aspects of open-canal thin-tube hearing aids* Practical tips tables & procedures designed to be pinned on the walls of clinics* Each cross-referenced chapter builds on the previous chapters Hearing Aids Second Edition is a book within a book: * Each chapter has a one-page synopsis that captures the key concepts of each topic* The material that students most need is contained in marked paragraphs that flow after each other to form a coherent thin book inside the larger book* Intervening additional paragraphs add satisfying depth Written comprehensively referenced & extensively reviewed by leaders in the field this book is ideal as a core graduate text as well as a standard reference for clinicians.

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HEARING BIRDS FLY is Louisa Waughs passionately written account of her time in a remote Mongolian village. Frustrated by the increasingly bland character of the capital city of Ulan Bator she yearned for the real Mongolia & got the chance when she was summoned by the village head to go to Tsengel far away in the west near the Kazakh border. Her story completely transports the reader to feel the glacial cold & to see the wonders of the Seven Kings as they steadily emerge from the horizon. Through her we sense their trials as well as their joys rivalries & even hostilities many of which the author shared or knew about. Her time in the village was marked by coming to terms with the harshness of climate & also by how she faced up to new feelings towards the treatment of animals death solitude & real loneliness & the constant struggle to censor her reactions as an outsider. Above all Louisa Waugh involves us with the locals lives in such a way that we come to know them & care for their fates. ...

A classic of fantastic literature Leonora Carringtons The Hearing Trumpet" is the occult twin to " Alice in Wonderland" published with an introduction by Ali Smith in Penguin Modern Classics. One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing trumpet is her family plotting to commit her to an institution. Soon she finds herself trapped in a sinister retirement home where the elderly must inhabit buildings shaped like igloos & birthday cakes endure twisted religious preaching & eat in a canteen overlooked by the mysterious portrait of a leering Abbess. But when another resident secretly hands Marian a book recounding the life of the Abbess a joyous & brilliantly surreal adventure begins to unfold. Written in the early 1960s " The Hearing Trumpet" remains one of the most original & inspirational of all fantastic novels. Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a British born Surrealist painter & writer described alongside people such as Pablo Picasso & Joan Miro as one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement. Born in Lancashire to a strict Catholic family she first came into contact with surrealism through her lover Surrealist painter Max Ernst before moving to Mexico in 1942. " The Hearing Trumpet" her most famous piece of writing was first published in France in 1974. If you enjoyed " The Hearing Trumpet" you might like Fernando Pessoas " The Book of Disquiet" also available in Penguin Modern Classics. " Reading " The Hearing Trumpet" liberates us from the miserable reality of our days". (Luis Bunuel). " One of the most original joyful satisfying & quietly visionary novels of the twentieth century". (Ali Smith). " This book is so inspiring...I love its freedom its humour & how it invents its own laws. What specifically do I take from her? Her wig". (Bjork)." ...

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters are a handful & Clara a senior cardiac specialist has a new job to cope with... For Ania meeting Clara Casey is a miracle: she had never intended to leave her beloved Poland but after the love of her life has turned sour her world seems rather empty. Perhaps a new job in a new country will mend her broken heart? Declan is looking forward to joining the clinic
- but what should have been a straightforward six-month posting brings him far more than he expected. Then theres Father Brian Flynn whose life is turned upside down when his reputation is threatened; & the beautiful cheerful nurse Fiona who cant leave her troubled past behind...
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Clara Casey senior cardiologist & mother of two already has a new job to cope with
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